“Lomography” is a term quite unknown to most of us, but many practice it. The name was inspired and derived from the Russian “LOMO” cameras. Lomography not only refers to photographs taken with the LOMO camera, but can also apply to casual photography taken with any ordinary camera.

The characteristics of Lomo photographs are oversaturated colors, extreme optical distortions, rainbow-colored subjects, off-kilter exposure, blurring and alternative film processing, all things usually considered bad in photography. In short, Lomography is the act of taking photographs without thinking, and ignoring the established rules of “good” photography.

Just take your camera along with you anywhere and everywhere, and start taking photographs. Sometimes it will yield amazing and creative results. Because it often does, we have collected over 35 Beautiful Oversaturated Pictures (among other things Lomography, but also other techniques), from many amateur photographers.

The names and images below are all linked to their sources, so please feel free to check out some of the other works of these very talented photographers.

Vailancio Rodrigues is a web ninja who bakes semantic muffins. Apart from that he is also interested in Motion Graphics, Visual Effects, Photography and knows little bit of Physics due to his college education . He is from Goa - a beautiful tropical paradise in India.

Aspire to get to those kind of photos though.. Did have an actual Helga myself – but it became costly getting the film developed and didn’t have the knowledge / time to do it myself. The multiple exposures really did give it something special though.

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Tom Bradshaw

One thing I remember from my art school days is how making mistakes or creating something unexpected can result in the best effect and final piece. This is an idea that I have rended to leave behind in my work as a webdesigner where everything is precise and thought through, I do though play around with the intensity of the contrast or brightness on the photographs I use. The photoshop tutorials look interesting, maybe I’ll get a chance to use them in the future.

Here’s what his website said (this is the RIGHT kind of lomography, right?) –
“On Michael Elliot ::

Michael Elliot is a photographer from Las Vegas, Nevada. Currently operating out of the heavenly Southern California where he has found an unending supply of new locations, people, and events to capture through his lens. His goal is to capture the obvious yet unseen – those moments where life is so in our face yet we fail to see the apparent dream-like nature of it all. To achieve this goal, all of Michael’s work is captured using a Lomo Kompakt Automat : a strange Russian film camera with communist-era origins. Michael uses 35mm film and prefers Kodak Professional Ultra Color 100 when working. “

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Brian Schmitz

Are you able to offer any of these images for publication on commercial sites? I can offer attribution and a back-link in exchange. I ask because I freelance graphics, web page design, web development, website hosting, plus the option of remote content management integrations for the client.

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Abe

Beautiful! Thanks for putting these together. I would be thrilled if you could check out my photography project and give me your feedback. I’ve been told that the images convey the same look and feel as those above.

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